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ShahFluffers Ice Fire Warriors	Posted - 2011.01.04 02:44:00 - [1] Quote: On the other hand, entering a system which is still technically under ôEmpire controlö and having twenty -10 ôpiratesö docked at a station with their feet kicked up seems somewhat strange. ArenÆt pirates anti-social murderers bent on wanton pillage, thus typically relegated to back water areas of ill repute? What the heck are they doing hanging out in an empire corporation station? WouldnÆt it be more appropriate to make it easy for pirates to come and ravage low sec systems yet, harder to stay around? The historical strength of pirates has always been to swoop in on unsuspecting ships in force and then disappear to places unknown to spend their ill-gotten gains? Actually, in RL (I know, I know... I should never compare games to RL, but bear with me) pirates were often employed (or at the very least, given indirect support) by various empires to go out and attack other empires' convoys and/or warships. For example, in the "Golden Age" of piracy pirates would often attack Spanish ships in and around the Caribbean area (Cuba, eastern Mexico, and South Florida) and then dock at English ports further north which [tacitly] supported them. Now for the big difference... according to EvE lore capsuleers are not part of any Empire per se and are instead a force completely unto themselves. The only governing body that has any say in capsuleer activities is [more or less] CONCORD. Ergo, the 4 empires could care less who resides in their borders or docks in their stations. It's not really their concern. To get to meat of your proposal... Your idea seems geared to completely wipe out piracy from the game. Once a person reaches -10 (as quite a few "hardcore" pirates do) they will effectively be unable to dock anywhere save 0.0 space... and we all know how docking rights are set out there (i.e. you can't dock, period). As for NPC guards... that kinda goes against the "player oriented gameplay" that EvE is so famous for. Why join a corp or buy mercs/bodyguards when you can simply get NPCs to do the same thing (albeit, less effectively)? _______________________ "Just because I seem like an idiot doesn't mean I am one." ~Unknown
ShahFluffers Ice Fire Warriors	Posted - 2011.01.04 03:15:00 - [2] Originally by: Khan D'Amarr As for wiping pirates out...absolutely not and I really hope this post does not come across that way. Would piracy be harder? Yes, but piracy should be hard and these players who choose to do it are up to the challenge I promise you that. Thing is, there's a difference between "making things hard" and "making things unnecessarily hard." Your idea would force pirates (a "rabble rabble" bunch for the most part) to employ logistical tactics/efforts usually used only by 0.0 alliances. I can say from personal experience that the main allure of low-sec is that one can engage in "0.0-esque" activities without the headache of dealing with logistics and/or massive amounts of organization that null-sec dwelling essentially "requires." _______________________ "Just because I seem like an idiot doesn't mean I am one." ~Unknown

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